slighting meaning

Definition of slighting

1. tending to diminish or disparage
   • belittling comments
   • managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
   • deprecatory remarks about the book
   • a slighting remark

   Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory

   Similar: uncomplimentary

slighting in a sentence

• Tom started slighting his studies after he became a member of the football team.

How to pronounce slighting

slighting is pronounced /ˈslaɪtɪŋ/ in American English. It has 2 syllables, with the stress on the first syllable.

Words that rhyme with slighting

• writing
• exciting
• fighting
• biting
• inviting
• uniting
• whiting
• sighting
• rewriting
• unexciting
• uninviting